VacationSelector

Hong Kong or San Francisco?

Two destinations compared on nine measures of openly sourced data. Weight what matters to you and the verdict follows.

Your match

Hong Kong
✓ Best match
68
match

Wins on beaches & swimming and value for money with your weighting.

San Francisco
62
match

Wins on museums & heritage and year-round weather with your weighting.

What matters to you?

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Scoreboard

Each measure scored 0 to 100. Open a row for the figures behind the score.

Hong KongSan Francisco
Beaches & swimming. Hong Kong leads by 27 points.27
Hong KongSan Francisco
Score8760
Swim season months80
Beaches 10 km6544
Coast distance0 km2 km
Water distance0 km2 km
Places to eat. Hong Kong leads by 5 points.5
Hong KongSan Francisco
Score8883
Restaurants within 2 km of centre4,3252,359
Effective number of cuisines within 2 km3239
Museums & heritage. San Francisco leads by 8 points.8
Hong KongSan Francisco
Score3644
Museums within 10 km5057
Museums within 2 km of centre1729
Share of museums within 2 km %3451
Unesco sites within 50 km00
Nightlife. Hong Kong leads by 3 points.3
Hong KongSan Francisco
Score7168
Drinking venues within 4 km1,9481,434
Drinking venues within 2 km of centre1,154928
Share of drinking venues within 2 km %5965
Nightclubs within 4 km3797
Nature & day trips. Hong Kong leads by 4 points.4
Hong KongSan Francisco
Score6460
Protected land share 50 km %817
Landscape blanket share 50 km %04
Land share of disc %2957
Park area within 2 km52 hectares45 hectares
Good for families. Hong Kong leads by 1 points.1
Hong KongSan Francisco
Score5857
Tourist attractions within 2 km2748
Park area within 2 km52 hectares45 hectares
Theme parks within 30 km51
Sights concentration. Hong Kong leads by 6 points.6
Hong KongSan Francisco
Score6963
Notable places within 2 km204147
Min wikipedia languages55
Value for money. Hong Kong leads by 20 points.20
Hong KongSan Francisco
Score6343
Price level global72100
Daily budget
Year-round weather. San Francisco leads by 4 points.4
Hong KongSan Francisco
Score7478
Monthly daytime high19.4 °C to 31.3 °C14 °C to 23.2 °C
Monthly rainfall23 mm to 493 mm0 mm to 105 mm
Dry months47
0255075100

When should you go?

The figures behind each month. Each row is shaded against that destination's own year, so the deepest cell is its best month for that measure and the palest its weakest. Shades are not comparable between the two rows.

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Daytime high, °C
Hong Kong
19
20
22
26
29
30
31
31
31
28
25
21
San Francisco
14
16
18
20
20
22
22
23
23
22
18
14
Sea temperature, °C
Hong Kong
20
20
21
23
26
28
29
29
28
27
24
21
San Francisco
12
12
12
12
12
12
13
14
14
14
13
12
Rainfall, mm
Hong Kong
23
39
70
144
280
493
381
453
331
92
36
31
San Francisco
105
87
91
26
16
5
0
1
7
27
72
87
Daylight, hours per day
Hong Kong
11
11
12
13
13
14
13
13
12
12
11
11
San Francisco
10
11
12
13
14
15
15
14
13
11
10
10
Sunshine, hours per day
Hong Kong
5
3
3
4
5
5
7
6
6
6
6
5
San Francisco
No sunshine record

Temperature and rainfall are thirty-year climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Hong Kong: 1991-2020 normals, King's Park (4.4 km from centre). San Francisco: 1981-2010 normals, Alameda Naval Air Station (9.1 km from centre).

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Getting there

Flying fromHong KongSan Francisco
TokyoHND, NRT
4 h 5 m
€279-371
HKG · 25 km
10 h 25 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
SeoulICN, GMP
3 h 5 m
€168-188
HKG · 25 km
11 h 20 m
€662-735
SFO · 18 km
ShanghaiPVG, SHA
2 h 10 m
€147-156
HKG · 25 km
12 h 15 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
VancouverYVR, YDT
12 h 45 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
2 h 10 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
BeijingPEK, PKX
3 h 0 m
€127-156
HKG · 25 km
11 h 50 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
New YorkJFK, EWR, LGA
15 h 55 m
no fares
HKG · 25 km
5 h 35 m
€286-328
1 stop
SFO · 18 km
FrankfurtFRA, HHN
11 h 25 m
€630-670
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
11 h 25 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
ParisCDG, ORY, BVA
11 h 55 m
€586-713
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
11 h 15 m
no fares
SFO · 18 km
DubaiDXB, DWC
7 h 40 m
€472-535
1 stop
HKG · 25 km
16 h 0 m
€1,005-1027
1 stop
SFO · 18 km
Mexico CityMEX, NLU, TLC
17 h 15 m
no fares
SZX · 54 km
4 h 15 m
no fares
OAK · 18 km

The busiest departure cities for these two, with a place kept for each other part of the world. Busiest means arriving passengers where an official count exists, and where none does, the number of non-stop services flown: official route statistics are published by the European reporting countries and by nobody else, so a table ranked on them alone would offer a reader in New York or Tokyo ten European cities. Flying times are estimated from the distance between airports, and every row is a city flown non-stop to both. Where the typical offer connects anyway, the stops are shown. Under each figure is the airport the flight lands at and how far that is from the centre, because the nearest airport is not always the one a route is flown to. Where both columns name the same airport it is one flight, and the difference between the two is the distance printed beside it. Typical return fares for 2026-09 to 2026-10, cached market data up to 7 days old. The figure is the middle half of the offers found, so a single price means they agreed and a range means they did not; for a typical route that middle half spans about a quarter of the median, and for the least settled routes rather more than the median itself.

Before you go

MeasureHong KongSan Francisco
Official languageStandard Chinese
CurrencyHong Kong Dollar (HKD)US Dollar (USD)
SocketsG220 V, 50 HzAB120 V, 60 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+8UTC-8, UTC-7 in summer
Emergency number999911
Elevation7 m16 m
Main airportHong Kong International Airport (HKG)25 km from centre151 non-stop destinationsSan Francisco International Airport (SFO)18 km from centre142 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year17 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureHong KongSan Francisco
City population7,413,070873,965
People per km²1,455
Museums within 10 km3950
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km00
Distinct cuisines in the centre76108
Swim season, months above 21 °C8 monthsNone

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Sources

© OpenStreetMap contributors, data available under the Open Database Licence. Place counts include data from Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA Permissive 2.0), assembled from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and other providers. Notable-place counts from Wikidata (CC0), weighted by Wikipedia language editions. Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm. Typical fares from Travelpayouts (Aviasales data). Route-level air passenger statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0.

Scores follow rubric v2; snapshot generated 2026-08-31. Typical prices can be up to 7 days old. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.